From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird Jean-Pierre do Caussade, in his eighteenth-century letters to those for whom he served as spiritual director, provides specific instructions on how to read a book spiritually: If you are to get from it all the good […]
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From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer Each of us arrives here with a nature, which means both limits and potentials. We can learn as much about our nature by running into our limits as by experiencing our potentials.
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From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Disentangling what we are told about ourselves from what resonates inside of us requires ongoing self-reflection. “Women without children are abnormal.” “Black people aren’t smart enough to complete graduate school.” “I wouldn’t live in that neighborhood.” These are but
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From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby “Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided self: only as we are in communion with ourselves can we find community
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From “Innovation and Entrepreneurship” by Peter F. Drucker The husband and wife who open another delicatessen store or another Mexican restaurant in the American suburb surely take a risk. But are they entrepreneurs? All they do is what has been done many times before. They gamble on the increasing popularity of eating out in their
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From “Trust the Whisper: How Answering Quiet Callings Inspires Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Grace“ by Kathy Izard That little voice inside you telling you to do something that feels inconvenient, unexpected, and uncomfortable. It might start with something small, like encouraging you to speak to a complete stranger, or something big, like urging you to
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From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Now consider the dividends of high trust. Obviously the opposites of the 7 Low-Trust Organizational Taxes we’ve just discussed are dividends. To lower or eliminate redundancy, bureaucracy, disengagement, politics, turnover, churn, and fraud will certainly make a huge positive
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